‘Air of calmness’ is promised for ‘Killing Eve’ new season

When we last saw TV character Eve Polastri, she was crumpled on stony ground of some ancient Roman ruins. She h been shot.

So natural question as Season 3 of sharp-edged spy thriller “Killing Eve” starts on Sunday is: Is Eve de? answer from creators of hit series is a resounding: “Are you kidding?”

“Nah,” says show’s executive producer Sally Woodward Gentle with a hearty laugh. Fans have also approached actress Jodie Comer, whose character shot Eve at end of season 2. “I’m like, ‘C’mon, guys! C’mon!’ I love that people are so involved,” she says.

Eve may t be de, but she’s keeping a low profile when season 3 kicks off on BBC America and AMC. Comer, who won an Emmy Award for playing assassin Villanelle, says action picks up six months after shooting in Rome.

Eve, played by Golden Globe-winner Sandra Oh, is trying to live a rmal life, working at a restaurant, somewhat protected by fact that Villanelle thinks she’s de.

“That is very short lived,” Comer says. “re is a visitor from her past who she is definitely t expecting or rey for. That takes her on a different course again.” Any guesses on who that visitor might be?

Season 2′s shocking ending was a mirror of way season 1 ended, which h Eve plunge a knife into Villanelle’s belly.

Since n, Eve’s life has alarmingly unraveled even more — t just her marri and job with a secret British intelligence unit but also her ethics. Season 2 saw Eve murder someone with an ax. (“How did it feel?” Villanelle asked her earnestly. “Wet,” Eve said flatly.)

Season 3 promises to be less hectic. “re’s much more an air of calmness, strangely, than in previous seasons where y’re chasing each or, y’re shooting each or in back,” Comer says.

“y’ve arrived at a very different place, and I think that’s due to what se women experienced in season apart from each or. y both go through life-altering events, which unify m in a strange sort of way.”

Gentle says both Eve and Villanelle look inward this time. assassin thought she was an orphan, but that may t be case, and new characters make “her question who she is and how whole she is as a human being,” Gentle says. “And Eve, at same time, is questioning everything she’s kwn, too.”

cat-and-mouse will continue, of course. relationship between Eve and Villanelle is complex, with elements of infatuation, mutual respect, envy and loathing.

final scene of Season 2 included Villanelle saying to Eve, “You love me, I love you.” To which Eve retorted “You don’t kw what that is.” Villanelle, enrd, responded with a bullet.

Comer says she and Oh are constantly renegotiating ir onscreen relationship. “That’s what’s so great about it: You can’t put your finger on it,” she says. “It’s constantly shifting and it’s constantly changing.”

le writer and executive producer for third season is Suzanne Heathcote and season 4′s main writer is Laura Neal, who was in writer’s room for season 3. Gentle is proud of fact that show has been women-led, beginning with season 1′s showrunner Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

“It’s an arena where women can come and write ir best, most entertaining, most provocative work but at same time can have a slightly different voice each time,” Gentle says. “What has been exiting is to find newer, female voices.”